Monthly Archives: June 2015
“CLC Blog: Charles Fried and Trevor Potter Respond to Wall Street Journal Editorial Attacking CLC’s Work”
Right to Rise PAC Disclaimers Buried in Jeb Bush Campaign Page Source Code [corrected]
What?
Correction: The disclaimers actually appear to be for Bush’s leadership PAC, not the super PAC.
Why the confusion? Note the similarity in the names:
Leadership: http://righttorisepac.org/
Super: https://righttorisesuperpac.org/
Note: the original headline said it was code related to… Continue reading
Whose party is it anyway?
Coauthored with Joseph Fishkin, University of Texas Law School
In yesterday’s post, we described how major functions once performed by official party organizations are migrating instead to what we call shadow parties—groups situated outside the official party apparatus, but clearly… Continue reading
“The fight to strengthen Voting Rights Act is not over yet”
Zack Roth reports for MSNBC.
“VoteRiders Announces Expansion Plus Focus on Next Targeted State”
Press release (spoiler alert: they are targeting efforts in Wisconsin, where it is very necessary).
“No ‘Sharp Warning’ From Recent Coordination Case”
“Thousands of Voters Are Disenfranchised by North Carolina’s Voting Restrictions”
Ari Berman:
A month after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, North Carolina passed the country’s most sweeping voting restrictions. The Supreme Court refused to block key parts of the law—cuts to early voting, the elimination… Continue reading
“When the Free ID Isn’t Free”
Kelly Fetty on how being poor makes it harder to get an id than you might imagine.
“In voting, will California finally enter the 21st century?”
“Killer Mike asks fans to vote him into Georgia’s legislature, then finds they can’t”
LAT:
“I would like as many people as possible to go to the polls and write in Michael Render,” he wrote on Instagram, using his real name. “If I win we win.”
But later in the day, he walked… Continue reading
“What Happens to Surplus Super PAC Money?”
NYT’s Taking Note ed blog.
The AIG Merits Ruling May Be Bizarre, But the Remedies Portion Makes Great Sense
Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in the NY Times about this decision from a federal claims court judge:
When the Federal Reserve propped up A.I.G. in September 2008, unlike its approach with most of the big banks, it threw out the… Continue reading